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Calgary’s police chief painted a bleak picture of policing in Calgary while asking elected officials for a $14.3 million boost to the service on Monday, as city council began deliberating a tough 2018 budget that proposes cuts across all city departments. From the most vehicle thefts in the country to growing worries about terrorism — […]

The political action committee affiliated with United Conservative Party Leader Jason Kenney is likely to close shop, while other PACs that sprung up in connection with conservative politics in Alberta are contemplating their own future course as the NDP government eyes tighter rules for the organizations. The Alberta Victory Fund was registered with Elections Alberta […]

A U.S. court begins hearing arguments this week in a lawsuit that claims increased volumes of oilsands crude have been allowed to flow from Canada into the United States without adequate public input or environmental review. Indigenous and environmental groups filed a lawsuit late last year against the U.S. State Department and Secretary of State […]

Despite losing the Calgary-Foothills byelection to the opposition Wildrose, the NDP government has no plans to significantly change course. Despite losing the Calgary-Foothills byelection to the opposition Wildrose, the NDP government has no plans to significantly change course. On Thursday night, the Wildrose’s Prasad Panda won the northwest riding — a longtime fortress for the […]

With economists asserting that Alberta is headed towards a recession, if not already in one, Premier Rachel Notley says the NDP government will be laying out an “economic stimulus package” later this year to get the economy back on track, rather than considering mass layoffs in the public service.

Fewer than half of Alberta’s medical authority staff reported getting their influenza shot last year, but Health Minister Fred Horne says he’s not considering mandatory immunization for workers at hospitals, long-term-care centres and other workplaces on the front lines of the flu season battle. Alberta Health Services data shows 43.9 per cent of its staff, contractors and volunteers reported getting immunized last flu season. The year before, 43.7 per cent of workers and volunteers got the shot.

Alberta farm groups are calling on the federal government to extend the minimum grain hauling requirements for Canada's railways, even though this year's harvest was significantly smaller than the bumper crop of 2013.

With debate set to start Monday on a new four-year city budget, council progressives and conservatives alike warn it is more difficult than ever to hold the line on taxes while still maintaining city services.

Calgarians who were trapped in their homes while residential streets were buried in snow last season may find some relief in budget proposals that would speed up plowing with millions in new spending. City staff has outlined three snow-clearing proposals that gradually increase the pace of plowing — clearing residential streets in four to six days — while boosting the price tag for taxpayers.

Alberta’s health minister is blowing smoke on implementing a sweeping ban on flavoured-tobacco products by considering an exemption on menthol cigarettes, says the Liberal’s health critic. Dr. David Swann said Health Minister Stephen Mandel is delaying proclamation of Bill 206, which received overwhelming support in the provincial legislature last year, and accusing him of caving in to tobacco lobbyists keen on ensuring menthol cigarettes are excluded from the ban.

The Tory cabinet has declared a disaster for Alberta’s agricultural producers because of frost and snow, including September’s freak snowfall. The order in council passed by cabinet Thursday declares an “agricultural economic hardship disaster” stemming from “extreme weather conditions with early snowfall and frost leading to damaged crops throughout the province.”

The CRTC’s move to prohibit 30-day cancellation policies by cable, Internet, and telephone service providers puts Canada’s telecommunications industry on notice, one analyst says. The decision, issued Thursday, is not that significant on its own, said Carmi Levy, a technology analyst with London, Ontario-based Voices.com. But as the first policy change to arise from the CRTC’s “Let’s Talk TV” hearings on the future of television, the ruling sends a message that the watchdog is serious about shifting control away from service providers and towards consumers.

In the wake of a private school bankruptcy that left scores of Alberta parents out of pocket for taxpayer-covered expenses, the Liberal opposition says the province should require all home-schooled students to register with public and separate school districts to prevent future problems.

Calgary Transit riders will pay higher fares but notice little in service improvements over the next four years, something some councillors want to fix by boosting service levels in the city’s budget. Mayor Naheed Nenshi predicted this will be one of the biggest debates when council budget talks begin Nov. 25, although he wouldn’t say where he stands.

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